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STIHL picks Hyflex® gloves for workers
July 9th, 2014
To protect employees from workplace cut hazards, STIHL Inc., producer of chain saws and other power tools, has selected the first safety glove to meet the requirements of EN 388 cut level 3 in 18-gauge thickness. This innovation is possible with a new advanced fiber technology that delivers the highest cut resistance for industrial safety […]
Sunseeker Duo realizes Solar Flight dream
July 9th, 2014
Aircraft developer Solar Flight Inc. has achieved a milestone with the successful flight of the Sunseeker Duo, the first two-passenger solar-powered airplane. Aboard were Irena and Eric Raymond—the company-founding husband and wife team responsible for the new airplane—who took off from the Solar Flight facility near Milan, Italy. The company says the solar cells used […]
Design student alters clothing with an iPad app
July 9th, 2014
BA (Hons) Fashion Design student Oli Royce won the GFW (Graduate Fashion Week) Innovation Award at the London, U.K., event for a menswear collection that featured engineered prints with text and visual details only visible through an iPad app. Royce, 22, studied Fashion Design at Nottingham Trent University, U.K., and used the show to debut […]
Testing of NASA’s next prototype spacesuit begins in November
July 9th, 2014
Work on human space exploration may appear to have settled into the background, but it has not gone away. In fact, NASA recently completed a spacesuit design challenge as part of the development of the next generation of spacesuits. After the public cast 233,431 total votes, the "Technology" option won NASA's Z-2 Spacesuit design challenge […]
Norway moves on PFOA sales ban
July 9th, 2014
Norway has become the first European country to introduce legislation that bans the sale of products and textiles containing PFOA (perfluorooctanoic acid). One of its uses is to make textiles more weather-resistant, but concerns about the chemical’s toxicity have been raised in the textile industry and elsewhere. The report in Ecotextile News says there are […]
Cleanroom, one word
July 9th, 2014
The dictionary says clean room is two words, but those who deal with “cleanrooms” more often use one word. I’m going with the people closest to the topic, so one word it is. (English teachers like me, no matter how long it’s been since they were last in the classroom, tend to obsess about things […]